Titel Kino 2-2000 - German Films

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Höre nie auf anzufangen –
Der Ufa-Star Carola Höhn
NEVER STOP BEGINNING – THE UFA-STAR CAROLA HÖHN
Genre Documentary Director/Screenplay
Robert Fischer Directors of Photography
Florian Sutor, Dieter Hohnhausen, Leo Potesil,
Hermann Sojewa, Achim Hepers, Brian Scully
Editor Natalie Kurz Producer Loy W. Arnold
Production Company BR, Munich, in coproduction
with Transit Film, Munich, in cooperation
with Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation,
Wiesbaden With Carola Höhn, Bruni Löbel,
Hansi Wendler, Johannes Heesters, Eric Pleskow
Length 50 min., 1.425 m. Format 35 mm,
colour and b&w, 1:1,66 Original Version
German Sound Technology Mono Comopt
German Distributor Transit Film GmbH,
Munich
World Sales:
Transit Film GmbH · Loy W. Arnold
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Percy Adlon
Carola Höhn
Between 1934 and the end of the war, Carola Höhn
appeared in over 30 films. In April, April and Zu
neuen Ufern she starred in films directed by
Douglas Sirk. Johannes Heesters was her partner in
Der Bettelstudent, Willi Forst in Königswalzer,
Hans Moser in Liebe streng verboten and Heinz
Rühmann in Hurra, ich bin Papa. Unlike the
femme fatale Zarah Leander or the sing and dance
queen Marika Rökk, Carola Höhn specialised in
playing modern, intelligent, open-minded young
women. After 1945 she made appearances on stage
in Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Bremen and Hannover.
She was the German voice of stars like Katherine
Hepburn, Irene Dunne, Maureen O’Hara and
Danielle Darrieux. Theses dubbing assignments
brought her from Berlin to Munich in 1950.
In 1994 Carola Höhn returned to the Berlin stage,
playing the role of Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady at
the Theater des Westens. ”Don’t ever begin to give
up – don’t ever give up beginning“ is the motto of
the ever-young and full-blooded actress.
Robert Fischer has made this lively and passionate
portrait, presenting numerous film clips, and newly
shot footage of colleageus, friends and family, but
above all – and in detail – Carola Höhn herself.
Robert Fischer was born 1954 in Greven, Westphalia.
He soon became one of Germany’s foremost film historians,
publishing books on Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, David
Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Bernhard Wicki and François
Truffaut. Together with Joe Hembus he wrote a history of
the new German Cinema. After a five-year stint as Vice
Director at the Munich Film Museum, Fischer switched to
full-time filmmaking in 1999. His documentary film
Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock was
shown at numerous film festivals, including Locarno and
Pordenone. He is currently developing a feature-length documentary
on child actors as well as two feature films. His films
are: Strange Behaviour Of Moving Pictures (1978,
short), Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock
(1999, documentary) and Never Stop Beginning -
The Ufa Star Carola Höhn (2000, documentary.)